VxBlock & Vblock – Core Storage Systems
A frequent question I receive: “What is the primary production storage system included in a VxBlock / Vblock?” Answer: Note: Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) STaaS on V(x)Block leverages DellEMC ViPR […]
EMC VNXe 3200 – MCx Drive Mobility
Related post: ‘EMC VNX – MCx Hot Sparing Considerations’ MCx code has brought many new features including the revolutionary ‘Multicore Raid’ which includes the ‘Drive Mobility’ feature. Drive Mobility (also […]
EMC VNXe – Code Upgrade
Before proceeding with any upgrade of code on the VNXe please reference the target code release notes on https://support.emc.com/. The VNXe landing page: http://emc.com/vnxesupport will provide you with all the […]
EMC VNXe Configuration Using Unisphere CLI (Part 3)
Part 1 Part 2 This is the third part in the series on configuring the VNXe via command line. Here I will detail the Steps involved in adding VMware ESXi […]
EMC NAS Plug-In For vSphere VAAI (VNXe Example)
The ‘EMC NAS Plug-in’ is required in order to enable VAAI (vSphere APIs for Array Integration) operations on ‘NFS Datastores’ on an ESXi 5.x host. If you are not familiar […]
EMC VNXe – Configuring E-Mail Alerts Via SMTP
The VNXe can send E-mail alerts of system events to a specified IP address when it encounters alerts or error conditions. View and Configure SMTP Server Settings In order to […]
EMC VNXe Configuration Using Unisphere CLI (Part 2)
This is the second part in the series on configuring the VNXe via command line. Here I will detail the Steps involved in creating both NFS and iSCSI datastores. The configuration steps outlined in Part2 will be the following: LACP Configuration Create the Network Interface for NFS NFS Shared Folder Server Configuration Create NFS datastores Creating iSCSI Interfaces/Nodes/Datastores LACP Configuration Link […]
EMC VNXe Configuration Using Unisphere CLI (Part 1)
This is the first in a series of blog posts on configuring VNXe using the command line. All the configurations here will be performed using “uemcli” which can be downloaded here . If you prefer to use the GUI interface then Henri has a very good series of blog posts here. The following scripts defined here are very useful if […]
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